Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
filippaberry84
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Comeuppance Reviews
Mason "Mace" Danvers (Cain) is a Chicago cop with everything to live for. His wife is expecting their first child, he's excelling in his career, and he's pretty much living the dream. Suddenly, his once-perfect life becomes a nightmare when the super-evil baddie Victor Abbott ('Show) invades his home and brutally slaughters his pregnant wife. Vowing revenge, Mace gets himself locked up in Stonewall prison so he can get close to Victor and his crew. But he gets more than he bargains for when he uncovers a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top. With Mace on the edge, will he get his VENDETTA? It's going to be a "big bad show tonight" as The Big Show faces off against Dean Cain in the battle we've all waited ages to see. Vendetta is the best WWE Films production we've seen to date, and has a lot of good points, mixed in with a couple negatives. The good: the movie is Dean Cain at his absolute best, and it's pretty gritty for him. Cain is out of control as he kills baddie after baddie and has some cool weaponry like spiked brass knuckles to help him along on his journey of revenge. You can see all the fights, and the movie certainly doesn't skimp on the blood, brutality, and violence. It's well-made overall and isn't overly long. It knows its place as a B-movie and anyone expecting anything else might be missing the point.The Big Show (we could call him Mr. Show, but that might be infringing upon the rights of Bob and David) is essentially a wrestling-style baddie, but perhaps even more evil. He's so maniacally evil, we at one point shouted, "we get it! He's EVIL!" - but that's the thing about these wrestlers being in WWE productions. Even though, as wrestlers, they haven't been in any movies, they have years of experience acting, because that's 99% of what wrestling is. The WWE is now essentially a farm team so they can figure out who goes into their cinematic output. Perhaps The Big Show and others just wanted to act all along; their dream was to be in off-Broadway plays and the legitimate theatre but just did wrestling as a backup plan. We certainly could see Mr. Big Show bellowing "Stella!!!! Stella!!!" in a star turn as Stanley Kowalski in 'Streetcar.The not-so-good: The movie is probably one of the least original and most clichéd we've seen in some time. There is literally nothing that in any way separates it from similar movies like Death Warrant (1990) or In Hell (2003). Whether that's a dealbreaker is another matter, but almost every prison movie cliché is present and accounted for, much like the lineup when prisoners first arrive at the jail. It's also quite repetitive, which is a seemingly unavoidable trap for prison movies. The whole second half is essentially 1. either Cain or Big Show talks to the warden in his office 2. fight scene 3. Big Show talking to his crew. That's pretty much it. This could have been avoided if Cain's character went into prison later in the movie than he does. If you don't have a problem with clichés and repetition, Vendetta is good, solid fare and has plenty of fine attributes to offset these things.
chemor
Wilhelm Scream. You know the one. It's been in movies since the days of black and white westerns. It's the same scream ol' Captain Wilhelm belted out when his leg was impaled by an Apache arrow. Sadly you have to wait almost 2 hours to hear it, but when you do you'll stop everything else to watch as a guy does a horizontal 720 from a barely landed weak hand punch. Pathetic.Seriously, worst scene in the movie; when a "hardened", veteran cop continues to fire his gun after the slide has locked in place, then looks at it like "oh, that's why it won't shoot.". Terrible. Just terrible.
Hassaan Khan
To cut the long story short, I watched the movie by dividing it into 20 minutes episodes. It was unbearable after 15 to 20 minutes of continuous stupid acting. At least they should have chosen a better lead character "Hero of the Movie" to get 1 star more :P He was chubby, amateur in fighting, acting and was full of amusing loose ends. Lol The BIG show was way too strong for that poor chubby fellow and noway was capable of fighting stunts. And please do let me know that how on earth can we get all the power, stamina and strength by having a couple of push ups??? The Warden seemed to be the greatest "fail" on Earth who never gets to control neither the Big show nor the Hero...Please do not try this at home or in theater :D
Mr_crowley81
I attempted to watch this 😂 but I had to turn it off 😩🔫 exactly what I thought it would be like, badly written plot that defies all logic..looked and shot like a really bad TV movie for syfy the look and bland feel of the film makes you doubt the integrity of the directors (who aren't the greatest to start with) on top of that its another horrible offering from WWE films with the Big Show who has the personality of a puppet and It also features the lamest on screen prison riot in film. The big show murders Dean Cain's wife and to exact his revenge Dean who is a cop gets himself put in prison to take down big show. The action is one of its main faults as with any of these direct to DVD action films, it's edit is quick and choppy to make it look rugged and hardcore it looks very amateur, several of the fight scenes are exactly the same as the ones you just saw 15mins ago way to over thought and planned it's almost as if they wait to hit their mark. There isn't much of a cinematography to even brag about. A paper thin plot. Almost stock locations like a warehouse and prison that looks like the same one that gets used for every low budget TV show or film, the ending builds up to a showdown that fizzles out in Min's and looks like every other fight scene you just saw in the film..it really doesn't have a positive and nothing special about this filmI'm a member of the horror community on Instagram so there is another aspect I wanna talk about, The main problem with the film is the directors the Soska twins have achieved this rabid cult following through their shameless self promotion of themselves and these movies that they make are bad Iv'e never saw such over hyped praised directors for really bad films like dead hooker in a trunk, see no evil 2 their spot on ABC's of death two and their uncredited involvement as incestuous twins in the slaughtered vomit dolls part 2. They do not have competent skills or a style and the films are judged by them as people and not for the films, vendetta is just another UN-thrilling entry into the soska twins below mediocre catalogue....avoid it
